From Vimeo channel Gump Studio comes the eeriest mash-up of the day. They expertly mix James Stewart from the Hitchcock classics Rear Window and Vertigo with some of the highlights from the filmograp...
Every so often you come across a rather splendid example of a short film. My latest find is the two-minute short How to train your robot. It is a simple tale based on a scene from the Hugh Jackman fi...
This is one that completely passed me by. I am a big fan of Park Chan-Wook and I rated Stoker as my favourite film of 2013. It was only recently I came across the short film, A Rose Reborn that was h...
With the forthcoming UK cinema release of Pixels this week it is an opportune moment to look back at the 2010 short film that inspired the feature. The inventive short was directed by Patrick Jean.
Experimental cinema by its very nature pushes forward the way we view and interact with films. Techniques and ideas developed by artists and pioneers have resulted in some of the aspects of modern ci...
For the fourth Fast and Furious film the action kicks in immediately with Dom (Vin Diesel), Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Han (Sang Kung), Tego (Tego Calderon) and Santos (Dom Omar) pulling of the dari...
I was introduced to the work of the French film director Jean Vigo via the excellent documentary series, The Story of Film: An Odyssey from the Scottish film maker Mark Cousins. Vigo only directed th...
The greatest compliment you can give a short film is that it left you wanting more. Short films look to take the essence of a single idea and progress this to a conclusion in a limited running time. ...
There have been extremely few games that have successfully transferred to the big screen. Video games in particular have a chequered past in the movie world. You only have to look at Need for Speed o...
So many movies these days disappoint their audience with their intended audience in spectacular ways. The initial promise of an idea becomes so diluted or changed that the final product is often not ...